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A twilight cycle tour of Zagreb, Croatia

I haven’t posted for a while so it is really nice to have somewhere new to write about.

Last weekend I was in Zagreb, capital of Croatia, for a workshop with ECF’s Leadership Programme, our annual event for emerging and developing cycle campaigning groups across Europe. Previous editions have included Bulgaria, Ljubljana and Mallorca.

That meant two intensive days working with really inspirational people from Croatia, Bulgaria, Byelorussia, Spain, France, Slovakia, Portugal and Bosnia-Herzegovina in a workshop setting, but actually not that much time to get out and explore a new city. There is a nice photo gallery from the workshop here – we were having too much fun indoors!

However, no Leadership Programme event is ever complete without our multi-national bike tour. This time our great hosts Sindikat biciklista had organised a fleet of bike share bikes and a city tour guide who led us around to various tourist spots in an electrically assisted rickshaw, which despite having 2 passengers zoomed around faster than any of us could follow.

The tour departed at 4pm so it was a real twilight tour, struggling up a steeply cobbled climb to the old city in time to catch sunset over the city and a pink glow over the St Mark’s Square.

Then we wandered about the floodlight landmarks and orange glow of the city streets as a flashing convoy before filing the evening with beer and chat.My camera always struggles in the half-light, but here is a quick gallery of the group and some of the night sights of this fine city.